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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






2. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






3. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






4. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






5. The organizational form of a literary work.






6. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






7. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






8. The main character of a literary work.






9. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






10. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






11. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






12. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






13. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






14. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






15. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






16. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






17. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






18. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






19. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






20. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






21. What a story or play is about.






22. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






23. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






24. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






25. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






26. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






27. The person who 'tells' the story.






28. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






30. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






31. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






32. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






33. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






35. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






36. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






37. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






38. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






39. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






40. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






41. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






42. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






43. A short saying with a moral.






44. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






45. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






46. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






47. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






48. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






49. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






50. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.